Abstract name : fitriani student no. : 1506102020040 study program : english education department title : an analysis of illocutionary acts in fantastic beasts: the crimes of grindelwald movie keywords: pragmatics, illocutionary acts, movie an illocutionary act is an act that happens when the speaker utters something to the hearer. the purpose of the current research is to find out the types of illocutionary acts dominantly used in the fantastic beast: the crime of grindelwald movie spoken by the main character “newt”. the source of the data was fantastic beast: the crime of grindelwald movie and the movie script. the research design used in this study was a descriptive qualitative research with documentation analysis as the technique of data collection. in analyzing the data, the researcher used content analysis proposed by miles & huberman (1994). the research shows that there were 131 illocutionary acts found in the movie. the findings show representative